So I misremembered which P* with Sony, whatever. I was going from memory.
As for the voting behavior, that was documented somewhere (on the DVD Forum site I believe) as to which voted what way, but there was much discussion about it on AVS Forums.
Can't trust Wiki to not be revisioned.
Don't paint Sony & Co as being any nicer than Toshiba. They were just as greedy and actually a little more underhanded, which helped their win. BR has it's points but HD DVD had it's. Yes, Toshiba did a lot to throw things in their favor at the DVD Forum but the other members of the forum let them - including Sony and other BR companies (as generally the BR companies were also DVD Forum members due to producing DVD hardware/software too). Mainly what separated the BR companies from the HD DVD companies at the outset, was that they wanted their slice of the pie (each generally only getting a small specific piece of the action), and they wanted to lock in the prices higher for longer than Toshiba would have, in order to maximize each slice. BR group wanted big margins up front on hardware (which would guarantee slow sales after the early adopters were covered) and for as long as possible (initially locking out the low cost Chinese firms) to get their individual slices to be highly profitable. The software margins weren't as good but the prices still high due to initial production issues. Toshiba would have had such a large slice of the HD DVD pie, that they wanted to go for overall volume as fast as possible (less per unit but more units), and rake in their profits from a wide range of patents (i.e., players and discs). The HD DVD discs were just barely more expensive than DVD to produce, so software prices were mostly profit. The more discs they sell, the more money they make. Most of the BR guys other than Sony (who did most of the initial disc manufacturing) were going to only see profits from the hardware sales themselves.
Also, as far as Toshiba forcing anything... technically, for most of the format war, the BR companies could have outvoted the HD DVD companies, they outnumbered them on the DVD Forum. But they didn't, they just kept not voting on things, being all passive aggressive like a teenager. That's when Toshiba changed the bylaws such that only yes and no votes were the only ones counted, previously yes votes had to outweigh no votes and non votes. BR companies kept going the non vote route, as before, but Toshiba could finally move ahead.
Sony and Panasonic had a patent empire previously with CD, lost the SD video round to Toshiba for DVD (honestly their multimedia CD standards were junk compared to DVD, essentially glorified SVCDs), and have now gotten the next round with BR. BR actually is built like an upside down CD. CD had the data close to the top, which meant it was well protected when set down (but easy to damage from the top), BR is the opposite (in order to get the data closer to the lens and improve data density) whereas DVD and HD DVD are both in the middle (well protected on both top and bottom, but not as high a density, density increase only from laser wavelength and not laser wavelength + closer to lens). This would also explain why BR discs require special coatings on them to protect the data layer from damage, since at the density the data is on the disc, even the slightest scratch can be unrecoverable. So both groups have modified existing techniques and mixed them with new technology. One trades capacity for reliability and cost of production (HD DVD), while the other trades reliability and cost of production for storage (BR). Most other features are comparable, at least if you compare the newer BR Profile 2.0 players vs HD DVD (and not the older 1.0/1.1 players, though I'll grant you most people have no use for the extra features... )
Mostly the production issues have been reduced (although I'm sure they still cost more to make than ye olde DVDs still, should become more fine tuned and cheaper over time as with anything else). And pretty much all current players are 2.0, and most of the 1.0/1.1 will be early adopters who (hopefully) knew what they were getting into. So now we're down to BR has a higher bitrate ceiling and more space, which are definitely points over HD DVD, even if most of the time you don't really need either, they do
But you need to keep pushing the limits of technology in order to develop those ships, so that there is someday a "good time" to do it. If you just wait for the tech to magically show up, you're screwed.
LBP and MGS4 are so far the only games I'd buy a PS3 for.... which is why I still only have the other two. Maybe someday... or maybe I'll just borrow a friend's.
Nearly everything worth playing is multi or 360 or wii exclusives, very few PS3 exclusives interest me.
"The satellite system is the most destructive and powerful weapon which was ever invented to be used by mobile suits. The satellite system was first used in the GX-9900 Gundam X and its Bit mobile suits of the Old United Nations Earth and it appears that only one unit is necessary to destroy an entire space colony.
To use the satellite system the flash system is required to contact a microwave station on the moon. The station then enables a laser lock with the Gundam and sends a microwave beam to load the weapon."
I wish I was getting paid any of the numbers in that article!
6 years in an ISP technical support callcenter position, with 2 or 3 raises, ended up at less than 27k/yr. Last year and a half in a datacenter/NOC tech position at a largish dedicated hosting company, started at 26/yr now just a tad over 30k/yr.
Where I work, if there's a packet storm someplace (server is getting attacked, server is attacker, or someone just has a really phat pipe on the other end and is moving a ton of data) we get a SNMP TRAP for packet threshold on the offending port. BAM! You know where the problem is, and since we have managed switches you just shut off the port if you can't resolve the problem.
Having said that, since the managed switches are gigE uplinked and each port is only 10/100, I don't think we've ever had a problem where a server was outbounding and brought down the switch/network (just made some extra latency). We've had some really large inbounds occasionally take down a whole switch, and heaven forbid some idiot shuts the port off on an inbound attack instead of nulling it at the border, cause then the ARP drops and the DOS gets forwarded to every port on the VLAN on a ton of switches.. but a broken NIC packet storming would not have been an issue.
OK, so maybe they don't have managed switches all the way down the to the lowest point on the network. They should still have SOME further up the chain and be monitoring them such that they know from what direction the problem is coming, and shut it off / look at it with a sniffer etc.
Infrastructure that is as important as an airport should have it's own infrastructure properly equipped and maintained with managed equipment, making this nearly a non-issue and certainly one easily resolved.
I can say for sure that IE still loads faster without active desktop. That's because most of IE's DLLs are loaded already by explorer, whereas netscape uses mostly its own stuff that has to be loaded. Netscape COULD use the standard DLLs and graphics etc but then it'd not look like netscape.
I have 4 IBM drives, 3 EIDE and 1 SCSI.. not sure off the top of my head what series but they're all 7200rpm, 13.5/20.5/60.5 EIDE and 17.5 SCSI, and my computer sees quite a bit of abuse.. I've had them various times from close to 3 years to just 5 or 6 months, and my case has been dropped as much as half, maybe a whole inch before, when off, and once or twice half an inch or so while on.. and when off it's been bounced alout during transportation.. I'm impressed how much abuse they took.
At one point the SCSI died but it turned out the ribbon cable from the drive electronics to the drive itself had it's connector pop loose and the cable kept sliding out.. pushing it in and pushing the connector in again to tighten fixed that and never had any more problems.
If guns are outlawed, only the outlaws will have guns. Where does that leave us? You can't just outlaw them from existance. Better to let everyone (not literally - children/people who can't be responsible for themselves and known murderers probably shouldn't be legally allowed to have them, for example) have em - that way the outlaws can be afraid of being shot back at, instead of having no fear at all.
Anyone care to start one? I imagine there are enough SBC customers to at least get a large enough petition that, while it might not affect anything, will make us feel better when we dump SBC:)
I have DHCP which is effectively static as long as I use the same computer to get an IP. If they switch me to PPPoE I'll be looking for a new provider. I've thought of Speakeasy, but I'm not too hot for Covad.. they have a rather bad reputation (I work at another ISP).
Go to a McDonald's drive thru, there's a sticker on the window that says something along the lines of 'We reserve the right to not serve individuals if we choose', or something to that effect. basicly says if we don't want to sell it to you, we won't. Which, I can say is probably ok - as long as they're basing it on sound reasons (can't think of any *likely* ones...) - but if its just something like not liking your looks, thats no good.. they do of course probably have the no shoes no shirts etc policy in the 'dining area', but that makes some sense at least.
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oblig. reference: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/08/07/
http://www.dvdforum.org/sc-meetingdetails.htm is where you can find the information on how the voting members of DVD Forum voted.
So I misremembered which P* with Sony, whatever. I was going from memory. As for the voting behavior, that was documented somewhere (on the DVD Forum site I believe) as to which voted what way, but there was much discussion about it on AVS Forums. Can't trust Wiki to not be revisioned.
Don't paint Sony & Co as being any nicer than Toshiba. They were just as greedy and actually a little more underhanded, which helped their win. BR has it's points but HD DVD had it's. Yes, Toshiba did a lot to throw things in their favor at the DVD Forum but the other members of the forum let them - including Sony and other BR companies (as generally the BR companies were also DVD Forum members due to producing DVD hardware/software too). Mainly what separated the BR companies from the HD DVD companies at the outset, was that they wanted their slice of the pie (each generally only getting a small specific piece of the action), and they wanted to lock in the prices higher for longer than Toshiba would have, in order to maximize each slice. BR group wanted big margins up front on hardware (which would guarantee slow sales after the early adopters were covered) and for as long as possible (initially locking out the low cost Chinese firms) to get their individual slices to be highly profitable. The software margins weren't as good but the prices still high due to initial production issues. Toshiba would have had such a large slice of the HD DVD pie, that they wanted to go for overall volume as fast as possible (less per unit but more units), and rake in their profits from a wide range of patents (i.e., players and discs). The HD DVD discs were just barely more expensive than DVD to produce, so software prices were mostly profit. The more discs they sell, the more money they make. Most of the BR guys other than Sony (who did most of the initial disc manufacturing) were going to only see profits from the hardware sales themselves.
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Also, as far as Toshiba forcing anything... technically, for most of the format war, the BR companies could have outvoted the HD DVD companies, they outnumbered them on the DVD Forum. But they didn't, they just kept not voting on things, being all passive aggressive like a teenager. That's when Toshiba changed the bylaws such that only yes and no votes were the only ones counted, previously yes votes had to outweigh no votes and non votes. BR companies kept going the non vote route, as before, but Toshiba could finally move ahead.
Sony and Panasonic had a patent empire previously with CD, lost the SD video round to Toshiba for DVD (honestly their multimedia CD standards were junk compared to DVD, essentially glorified SVCDs), and have now gotten the next round with BR. BR actually is built like an upside down CD. CD had the data close to the top, which meant it was well protected when set down (but easy to damage from the top), BR is the opposite (in order to get the data closer to the lens and improve data density) whereas DVD and HD DVD are both in the middle (well protected on both top and bottom, but not as high a density, density increase only from laser wavelength and not laser wavelength + closer to lens). This would also explain why BR discs require special coatings on them to protect the data layer from damage, since at the density the data is on the disc, even the slightest scratch can be unrecoverable. So both groups have modified existing techniques and mixed them with new technology. One trades capacity for reliability and cost of production (HD DVD), while the other trades reliability and cost of production for storage (BR). Most other features are comparable, at least if you compare the newer BR Profile 2.0 players vs HD DVD (and not the older 1.0/1.1 players, though I'll grant you most people have no use for the extra features
Mostly the production issues have been reduced (although I'm sure they still cost more to make than ye olde DVDs still, should become more fine tuned and cheaper over time as with anything else). And pretty much all current players are 2.0, and most of the 1.0/1.1 will be early adopters who (hopefully) knew what they were getting into. So now we're down to BR has a higher bitrate ceiling and more space, which are definitely points over HD DVD, even if most of the time you don't really need either, they do
I've got this GREAT idea to end world hunger!
But you need to keep pushing the limits of technology in order to develop those ships, so that there is someday a "good time" to do it. If you just wait for the tech to magically show up, you're screwed.
LBP and MGS4 are so far the only games I'd buy a PS3 for .... which is why I still only have the other two. Maybe someday... or maybe I'll just borrow a friend's.
Nearly everything worth playing is multi or 360 or wii exclusives, very few PS3 exclusives interest me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_War_Era_technology#Satellite_system
'After War Gundam X' even more appropriate.
"The satellite system is the most destructive and powerful weapon which was ever invented to be used by mobile suits. The satellite system was first used in the GX-9900 Gundam X and its Bit mobile suits of the Old United Nations Earth and it appears that only one unit is necessary to destroy an entire space colony.
To use the satellite system the flash system is required to contact a microwave station on the moon. The station then enables a laser lock with the Gundam and sends a microwave beam to load the weapon."
What is this inner silicon tracker? Are you saying after 10 years, it would be potentially dangerously radioactive?
And I assumed he meant the ever-expanding resource utilization of software - RAM, disk space, processor speed, network bandwidth, etc.
I wish I was getting paid any of the numbers in that article!
6 years in an ISP technical support callcenter position, with 2 or 3 raises, ended up at less than 27k/yr.
Last year and a half in a datacenter/NOC tech position at a largish dedicated hosting company, started at 26/yr now just a tad over 30k/yr.
Where do I sign up for 74k/yr?
Where I work, if there's a packet storm someplace (server is getting attacked, server is attacker, or someone just has a really phat pipe on the other end and is moving a ton of data) we get a SNMP TRAP for packet threshold on the offending port. BAM! You know where the problem is, and since we have managed switches you just shut off the port if you can't resolve the problem.
Having said that, since the managed switches are gigE uplinked and each port is only 10/100, I don't think we've ever had a problem where a server was outbounding and brought down the switch/network (just made some extra latency). We've had some really large inbounds occasionally take down a whole switch, and heaven forbid some idiot shuts the port off on an inbound attack instead of nulling it at the border, cause then the ARP drops and the DOS gets forwarded to every port on the VLAN on a ton of switches.. but a broken NIC packet storming would not have been an issue.
OK, so maybe they don't have managed switches all the way down the to the lowest point on the network. They should still have SOME further up the chain and be monitoring them such that they know from what direction the problem is coming, and shut it off / look at it with a sniffer etc.
Infrastructure that is as important as an airport should have it's own infrastructure properly equipped and maintained with managed equipment, making this nearly a non-issue and certainly one easily resolved.
I can say for sure that IE still loads faster without active desktop. That's because most of IE's DLLs are loaded already by explorer, whereas netscape uses mostly its own stuff that has to be loaded. Netscape COULD use the standard DLLs and graphics etc but then it'd not look like netscape.
I have 4 IBM drives, 3 EIDE and 1 SCSI.. not sure off the top of my head what series but they're all 7200rpm, 13.5/20.5/60.5 EIDE and 17.5 SCSI, and my computer sees quite a bit of abuse.. I've had them various times from close to 3 years to just 5 or 6 months, and my case has been dropped as much as half, maybe a whole inch before, when off, and once or twice half an inch or so while on.. and when off it's been bounced alout during transportation.. I'm impressed how much abuse they took.
At one point the SCSI died but it turned out the ribbon cable from the drive electronics to the drive itself had it's connector pop loose and the cable kept sliding out.. pushing it in and pushing the connector in again to tighten fixed that and never had any more problems.
Because then it'd make it look like the US was retaliating without making sure who did it, which makes the US look bad.
Do you think Bin Laden gives a flying @(#^ about anyone in Afghan except himself, if he's there?
If guns are outlawed, only the outlaws will have guns. Where does that leave us? You can't just outlaw them from existance. Better to let everyone (not literally - children/people who can't be responsible for themselves and known murderers probably shouldn't be legally allowed to have them, for example) have em - that way the outlaws can be afraid of being shot back at, instead of having no fear at all.
Anyone care to start one? I imagine there are enough SBC customers to at least get a large enough petition that, while it might not affect anything, will make us feel better when we dump SBC :)
I have DHCP which is effectively static as long as I use the same computer to get an IP. If they switch me to PPPoE I'll be looking for a new provider. I've thought of Speakeasy, but I'm not too hot for Covad.. they have a rather bad reputation (I work at another ISP).
Go to a McDonald's drive thru, there's a sticker on the window that says something along the lines of 'We reserve the right to not serve individuals if we choose', or something to that effect. basicly says if we don't want to sell it to you, we won't. Which, I can say is probably ok - as long as they're basing it on sound reasons (can't think of any *likely* ones...) - but if its just something like not liking your looks, thats no good.. they do of course probably have the no shoes no shirts etc policy in the 'dining area', but that makes some sense at least.
Hahah. Damnit, I should have checked /. just a tad sooner. you stole my thought!
(Hrm. would that be a thought crime? *ducks flames*)
That's crazy enough to work. Might take alot of those waveplants, but then.. you get lots of power for your POPs! :D
Cable gets cut and power blows up? Did Telstra make any enemies or something? Come on, someone make us a good conspiracy movie on this!
Does the Fist of the Southern Cross have Southern Cross mecha?
both links got borked (/. trying to prevent 'bomb' URLs?)m l,
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/02/14/1457219.sht
http://www.pcextremist.com/news/2000-02/95.shtml
"Are you mad?! DON'T YOU REALIZE THE DANGEROUS SELF PRESERVATION TENDANCIES OF THESE THINGS?! WHAT IF YOU LOOSE CONTROL!!"
"We'd have a totally unpredictable entitiy on our hands, and isn't that what this whole project was about anyways?"
Well that way they won't need lists. Just call every number and see if they hit the manager! ;)